Health Care Costs
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The Learning Healthcare System This week I am talking to Vivian Lee, MD PhD MBA, (@vivianleemd) President Verily Health Platforms (@verilylifesci) and author of “The Long Fix: Solving America’s Health Care Crisis with Strategies that Work for Everyone” (W.W. Norton) and a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Medical School. Dr Lee started out like many doctors do with a […]
There Is No Simple Solution to Healthcare Costs This months episode of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of December 2019 and closes out the year You can read more about the series here and the concept of keeping up with innovating in healthcare. Please send me your […]
This week I am talking to Lawrence Kosinski, MD, MBA, the Founder and CMO of SonarMD (@SonarMD) a company offering a pathway to optimizing the treatment of patients with complex chronic conditions to improve outcomes and decrease costs. Dr Kosinski’s journey started when he took on the role of chairman of the American Gastroenterology Association (AGA) […]
This week I am talking to Matt Seefeld, EVP at MedEvolve (@MedEvolve). He spent his career in healthcare focused practices and specialty practices and has been developing IT teams who are using analytics and machine learning to manage revenue cycle more efficiently. We talk about the path to this point that was driven by the ever evolving […]
This months episode of “News you can use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio features news from the month of September 2019 You can read more about the series here and the concept of keeping up with innovating in healthcare. Please send me your suggestions on topics you’d like to see covered. You can reach out […]
Keeping Up With Innovation in Healthcare Starting this month I will be running a monthly review of “News you can Use” in the traditions of “Ask Me Anything” on HealthcareNOWRadio You can listen in to the first episode and read more about it here where I discuss topics ranging from Healthcare insurance and surprise billing, […]
Your Hospital Bill is How Much? I’d like to tell you this is an unusual occurrence but this sorry tale is so common that I’ve come to expect these stories to emerge on a regular basis. This one striking just a little bit closer to home when a friend reached out for help. They were […]
How do We Validate Innovation Talking with Linda Riddell, Poverty Educator and in charge of validation reviews at the Validation Institute at the World Healthcare Congress (WHCC19). The validation institute is used by vendors with outcomes, promises, and results that they are offering and they check the claim. They check the claims, the source, and reliability of […]
Why Incrementalism Must be Relentless Talking with Craig Samitt, MD, President, and CEO of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota (BCBSMN) at the World Healthcare Congress (WHCC19). As he described himself “the old incumbent and was a bit impatient and irreverent about the pace of change” He has passion for a transformation in our […]
The VA Healthcare System Model Talking with David Shulkin, MD – the former United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs serving under President Donald Trump at the World Healthcare Congress (WHCC19). He shares the early drivers to his long career in medicine that centered on informing and educating patients which permeates throughout his career as […]
The Price We Pay Talking with Marty Makary, MD, Professor of Surgery and Health Policy & Management, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and author of “The Price we Pay – What Broke American Healthcare and How to Fix It” at the World Healthcare Congress (WHCC19). As he puts it the two main issues in our healthcare […]
Pearls of Wisdom to Fix Healthcare Talking with Robert Pearl, MD, (@RobertPearlMD) best-selling author of the book Mistreated and former CEO of The Permanente Medical Group at the World Healthcare Congress (WHCC19). Robert shares his thoughts on death, especially as a result of medical errors, in the most expensive healthcare system in the world. He […]
This week I am talking to Maggie Ehrenfried, Managing Director, Development LifeNet International (@LNInternational). LifeNet International is an organization working hard across Sub Sharan and East Africa to change that. This non-profit which touts its incredible efficiency operates through an “amplification of local resource” model to build and strengthen in-country capacity in the healthcare delivery chain. They […]
The Morass of Healthcare in the United States Reading through the litany of challenges in healthcare on a daily basis is depressing. That is unless you are in one of the fortunate groups that have healthcare coverage that actually pays those bills and doesn’t cost so much to be unaffordable. So who manages to get […]
I managed to catch David Mitchell (@DavidP4AD) after his presentation at the Healthcare Costs Innovation Summit, put on by West Health, that took place today at the Ronald Regan Building and International Trade Center in Washington DC. David has Multiple Myeloma – an incurable drug cancer that is treatable by very expensive drugs. Drugs that cost […]
It was a real privilege to catch Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal, (@RosenthalHealth, author of “An American Sickness”) after her presentation at the Healthcare Costs Innovation Summit, put on by West Health, that took place today at the Ronald Regan Building and International Trade Center in Washington DC. I asked her what the average consumer should be […]
Keys to Successful Conferences How do you describe the CNS Summit and what it offers – the word impossible springs to mind? Even the name can be a little misleading especially for medical folks who might look at that and think “Central Nervous System” but actually its stands for Collaborating for Novel Solutions This coming […]
It was with interest I read a recent Viewpoint article in the Journal of American Medical Associations (JAMA) titled: Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) in the Digital Age, Determining the Source Code for Nurture authored by Dr. Freddy Abnousi, the head of healthcare research at Facebook, along with a couple of other authors, Dr. John Rumsfeld, Chief Innovation Officer […]
The crown jewels of British society The NHS was the crown jewels of British society providing healthcare to every member of society no matter who they were, where they came from and what personal resources they had. It was the great leveler of society creating a single standard of care and service that was accessible […]
Behavioral Health for Positive Impact This week I am talking to Matt Wallaert (@mattwallaert), Chief Behavioral Officer at Clover Health. I have listened to Matt on a few occasions, most recently at the FitBit Captivate event in Chicago so I was excited to get to talk to him one on one. Matt plays an unusual […]
Delivering the Care Patients Want This week I am talking to Dr. Jay Mathur, Associate Regional Medical Director for Caremore Health Systems in Connecticut. A program that started 25 years ago in California and has now expanded to multiple states and has been in Connecticut for a little over a year. This is the medicine […]
Your Data but Who Owns It This excellent piece by ProPublica and NPR: Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details About You — And It Could Raise Your Rates is part of a series – The Health Insurance Hustle by Marshall Allen that offers insights into the data-rich world we are entering and how this information may well be […]
Am I the only one frustrated with a health system that allows for bills to show up not only as a slow trickle but also an avalanche if you have been unlucky to intersect with a hospital system for anything. But as if that was not bad enough there is no of limitations for medical […]
If you’re like me, you’re always trying to find the best deals on your credit card, cable, and phone providers. That may mean calling up every 12 months to renegotiate annual contracts—or threatening to cancel. But for many people, the cost of putting in this time and effort is too high, so they just renew […]
Many patients have underlying issues with their health. Oftentimes, these issues can be identified by certain markers, like a patient’s speech pattern, gait or by looking at vital signs including blood pressure, heart rate, and weight. To an untrained eye, it might be unnoticeable, but physicians are trained to look for these patterns as […]
